Computer peripherals and interfacing L t p rationale

SUGGESTED DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS FOR FACILITATING THE PAPER SETTER 
Sr No 
Topic
Time Allotted 
(hrs) 
Marks Allotted
(%) 
1. 
Video Display 
6 
15 
2. 
Hardware Organisation of PCs 
6 
15 
3. 
Storage Devices 
5 
10 
4. 
Input Devices 
8 
15 
5. 
Output devices 
7 
12 
6. 
Power Supplies 
5 
15 
7. 
The Basic Input/Output System 
5 
10 
8. 
Other Technologies 
6 
8 
Total 
48 
100 
 

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5.2 OPERATING SYSTEMS (OS)
[Common in Computer Engineering and I.T.] 
L T P
3 - 4
RATIONALE 
The course provides the students with an understanding of human computer interface existing in 
computer system and the basic concepts of operating system and its working. The students will 
also get hands-on experience and good working knowledge to work in windows and Linux 
environments. The aim is to gain proficiency in using various operating systems after undergoing 
this course. While imparting instructions, the teachers are expected to lay more emphasis on 
concepts and principles of operating systems, its features and practical utility. 
DETAILED CONTENTS 
1. 
Overview of Operating Systems
(04 hrs) 
Definition of Operating Systems, Types of Operating Systems, Importance of Operating 
Systems, Memory organization, Linking, loading and executing control program 
2. 
Functions of Operating System
(24 hrs) 
Process Management Functions (Principles and Brief Concept); Job Scheduler, Process 
Scheduler, Process synchronization. Memory Management Function (Principles and Brief 
Concept); Introduction, Single Process System, Fixed Partition Memory, System Loading, 
Segmentation, Swapping, Simple Paging System, Virtual Memory. I/O Management 
Functions (Principles and Brief Concept); Dedicated Devices, Shared Devices, I/o Devices, 
Storage Devices, Buffering, Spooling. File Management; Principles and Brief Concept, 
Types of File System; Simple file system, Basic file system, Logical file system, Physical 
file system. Dead Lock; Condition for Dead lock, Dead Lock Preventions, Dead Lock 
Avoidance 
3. 
Linux Operating System
(20 hrs) 
Introduction, history of Linux and Unix, Linux Overview, Structure of Linux, Linux releases, 
open linux, system requirements, file structures, processor scheduling and memory 
management in Unix. Linux Commands and Filters: Shell: concepts of command options, 
input, output redirecting and network file, process and communication commands like: 
mkdir, cd, ls, who, whoami, cat, more, tail, head, mv, chmod, grep, wc, sort, kill, write, wall, 
mail, news